Necktie-fastener



(No Model.)

A. H. BUELL.

NECKTIE FASTENER.

No. 601,011. Patented Mar. 22,1898.

I To a. tuhom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR H. BUELL, OF HERNDON, VIRGINIA.

' N ECKTlE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,011, dated March 22, 1898.

' Application filed August 24, 1897. $orial No. 649,367. (No model.)

'Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. BUELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Herndon, in the county of-Fairfax and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in NecktieFasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention is a device for holding cravats in place and to keep them from slipping up the collar; and it consists in its novel construction.

.3 shows the device as shown in Fig.3 applied.

Figs. 4 and 5 are other forms of my device.

The great annoyancearising from the eravat slipping up and slipping around is overcome by the use of my device.

. My invention is described as follows:

Primarily my device consists of' a single sheetof metal 1, bent at the points 2 3, forming a compact bend.

In order to secure the cravat in place, the,

part 4 is slipped up between the neckband of the shirt and under the collar, and the cravat is slipped up in the space 5 between the parts 6 and 7. i g

. In use the cravat is slipped in through the two slots, over the bars 12 and v14E, and under Form Fig. 5 is substantially the same as prong is conveniently passed under the collar at the rear or near the rear of the neck and that end may be plain, as shown in Fig. 1, or bifurcated, as shown in Fig. 5, and the other end constructed by being turn ed up and then down, so as to hold the cravat, as shown in Fig. 1, or being provided with slots, as shown in Fig. 4. This thought, as embodied in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, is believed to be substantially one thought and is believed to be new.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A necktie-fastener, consisting of a strip of metal having at one end two closed longitudinal slots forming three parallel bars, the slip being bent in the form of a compact N, substantially as described, whereby the necktieband may be threaded through the slots and the necktie-fastener thus be attached to the band.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses' ARTHUR H. .BUELL.

Witnesses:

' CONRAD R. BITZER, CHARLES H. REED. 

